“rather than staking out an obvious hotspot of crime and nailing the greedy and lazy perps?”
Do you think that it’s possible that in a place like Queens there may be more than one obvious “hotspot”.
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Quite possibly. But in Holmesian fashion I cleverly deduced from the headline that one particular area was a) concentrated, b) known to both citizens and police and c) nothing had been done about it.
And if there is more than one hotspot that is a further indictment of the police, not an exoneration of them.